Greed

Greed is one of those, so-called. biblical themes, but aren't they also war, pandemic, earthquakes and other disasters. Biblical are all those topics that are condemned to eternity and universality. But greed is clear even at the most infantile level - you don't need to go further than the perfect The Fisherman and the Little Fish. I hope it still finds readers today.

Charismatic Jacques Fresco, the inspirer of the movement Zeitgeist, insisted that capitalism has a structural flaw, because it rests on greed. "When the doctor tells me, in today's capitalism, that an operation is necessary, I'm not sure if it's really so, or maybe the doctor has to pay the installment for his yacht."

Again, it is interesting that this "constructional error" probably caused two important properties of capitalism: its vitality and corruption. It is not impossible that these two properties are responsible for the dominant position of capitalism as a historical formation.

But how, with the so-called we associate classical capitalism with a kind of heightened awareness and responsibility that was usually generated by the power and/or axiology of society, postmodern capitalism works - extremely unhinged, which means that the basic instinct of greed no longer has any corrective pressure from society as such. It is clear that the price of the new situation is paid by the existence of society, that is, by its humiliation and disappearance. Today it is a space of parody and cynicism, not a generator of logic of common interest.

In recent times, greed manifests itself particularly clearly and tragically through the popular board game called corruption on many meridians. Not only does corruption destroy entire societies, but also in the most literal way - it costs tens of thousands of human lives. This is exactly what the earthquake in Turkey and Syria showed. Not only the "destructive power of nature", as it is said on similar occasions, but also the no less destructive power of human depravity.

Today, it is creepy to look at advertising videos and confident faces of "investors" who repeat the mantra of Fr the highest quality materials, construction and location, and then see all those terrible ruins. And among all those frighteningly stacked buildings (residential complexes) that have become tombs for hundreds of their inhabitants, you see, intact those "ugly", ordinary buildings from the seventies, eighties and nineties, which no one advertised with TV commercials. They stand firm canoe gorge, witnessing the time when the reins of the Javanese were not released.

This is important - because as experts explain, since earthquakes are impossible to announce and accurately predict, solid and high-quality construction remains the only way of protection. It's scary when you realize that different construction would have made this earthquake have incomparably fewer human casualties.

This insight necessarily leads us to the next, completely natural question... I say natural, since earthquakes are not "if", but "when". How would today's Montenegro pass such a test of nature? Was the expansion of construction from the past decades accompanied by social responsibility? What are the proportions of corruption in that sphere, that is actually a key question.

Until recently, the ruling DPS will persistently not understand - they were not brought down by litias or church laws, neither "pro-Russian Serbia" nor "non-patrician Montenegrinism", but greed, which became their ticket to the big game, and which turned a policy into a cover for greed . The whole society has been turned into a hostage of such greed. Behold the killing of the rivers: a crime against nature, a true picture of domestic ingenuity and corrupt, highly corrupt politics.

I remember how one used to be good character, once said that Montenegro was too small for their greed. Interestingly, and perhaps completely Montenegrin - he stopped saying that when he was invited to the master's table again - certainly, driven by his love for the French Baroque, and not by greed...